A woman was jailed for nine months yesterday after putting on the internet
“scandalous” allegations of sex abuse in a battle over a child.

Elizabeth Watson, who was charged with contempt of court, had sent
“aggressive, intimidating” e-mails to council staff involved in the case.
These found their way on to websites and “compromised the wellbeing” of the
child, Sir Nicholas Wall, the most senior family judge in England and Wales,
said.

The woman was used as an investigator in the case in which a little girl was
“coached” by her mother into making “entirely false” allegations that her
father